Green Angel
Alice Hoffman
Top 10 Best Quotes
“My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel.”
“I didn’t want to be prideful anymore. I wanted to be as hard as and brittle as the stones I carted into the woods. Stones that could not feel or cry or see. I wished not to feel anything at all. In no time, what I wished for, I became.”
“She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future.”
“I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming.”
“I was making a different sort of heart, one that was black, one that was protected by thorns, by bats, by raven's wings, by sorrow, by my aloneness, my armour”
“I understood wanting to forget. Things that made you remember cut like pieces of glass.”
“No one called out my name. Finally, I went to open the door. I could smell burning metal.”
“I thought about how it was impossible to forget, no matter how hard anyone might try.”
“One day she would surely vanish altogether, and there was no way to stop her. She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future”
“I started to feel as though I were disappearing. Perhaps I myself was figment of my own imagination, a storm cloud, a wisp of smoke, a burning ember.”
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Book Keywords:
green-heart, grief, dreaming
